'Do listen to the CD in
the record shop – and I am sure you will love Megumi Fujita's way of
playing and her Chopin's interpretation.' P-G Bergfors

31st May 2017A review of Megumi's Chopin 24 Etudes CD:

The
greatest piano studies of all time.

As
Frédéric Chopin was also a pianist, he studied the piano extensively.
Unlike his friend Liszt, he, as a concert pianist, disliked large venues and big
audiences. He preferred performing at intimate surroundings.One will recognize
such differences when listening to the newly released CD (Intim Musik label) of
Chopin's etudes op.10 and 25 performed by Megumi Fujita, widely known around the
world as a chamber musician in a piano trio with her two sisters.

What
I mean is, that these pieces are usually a showcase for how technically brilliant,
strong, fast and skilled a young pianists can execute the Chopin's etudes. Fujita
has totally different attitude to this, as shown from the very first Etude, op.
10 No. 1, in C major.

She has all the technique required of a modern pianist to play at any speed, but
she refrains from getting praise this way. With wonderful touch and remarkably
controlled dynamics, and perfect mix of the classical and romanticism born out
of Chopin's heart (Chopin loved Mozart’s music!), she takes the tempo at a slightly
slower pace, with tenderness and butterfly's touch, thus drawing the music away
from the earth shattering fast-paced virtuosi.

With
the risk of misunderstanding, I would like to call Fujita's interpretation feminine
in the very best meaning of that word.I cannot pick "best tracks" in
this collection. Everything is so good. A personal musical favourite among them
is Etude Op.25 No.1 in A flat major. Do listen to the CD in the record shop –
and I am sure you will love Megumi Fujita's way of playing and her interpretation
of Chopin.

Recording quality is of the highest standard as well as the
photos, the booklet and the elegant notes for the music as usual from Intim Musik,
is pleasure to the eye and contributes to the overall experience in the most favourable
way.

HORSHAM music circle's 70th season
continued on Saturday evening with a stunning recital at the Drill Hall given
by Japanese pianist, Megumi Fujita.

Her programme opened with Beethoven's
Waldstein Sonata with its vast developed first movement, followed by a restrained
slow movement which leads straight into the triumphant rondo finale. It was played
with flawless artistry.

Rachmaninov's Twenty Variations on the La Folia
theme are wide-ranging in imagination, admirably concise and essentially romantic.
They received a very fine performance, well paced with flamboyant technique.

Brahms's Three Intermezzos are much loved late romantic pieces which were
superbly played with all the warmth, affection and peaceful contentment demanded
within the music.

Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel is a suite of six pieces
dedicated to friends of the composer who lost their lives in the First World War.
Although inspired by the Baroque suites it is composed of a wide range of styles.
Megumi Fujita brought out all the classical purity, sheer sensuous beauty and
lush richness of the sound.

The final ovation demanded an encore when
we had the great pleasure of one of Rachmaninov's Preludes. It made a fitting
conclusion to an evening of the very finest piano music, all magnificently played
with great charm.

West
Sussex County Times 20th Oct 2011 G.T.

"...(Megumi
Fujita) was marvellous mature and confident...faultless technique and tone...Tour
de force in all respects."

2nd
December 2006Megumi's
review of her Wigmore Hall recital came out!"The
most striking feature of Megumi Fujita's playing in the Wigmore Hall on 1 October
was the sheer beauty of sound she drew from the piano, always brilliantly singing
yet subtly varied according to which masterpiece she performed....this was among
the best recitals I've heard this year to mark the 150th Anniversary of Schumann's
death"Musical Opinion Nov/Dec 2006
Max Harrison

28th
March 2006Megumi's
review of her Rachmaninov CD came out!"Ms Fujita
plays it exquisitely...Fujita has a perceptive ear for the poetic virtues of this
music as well as having all the virtuosity needed to capture the stormy atmosphere
in some of the preludes. " Goteborg
Posten 2006

2th
October 2005Megumi's
review of the June Wigmore Hall recital came out!"...solid
technique and beautiful touch. The most magical aspect of her playing was the
endless variety and nuance of colour which she searched for and extracted out
of her instrument....bewitching tonal palette..."
(Musical Opinion Sept/Oct 2005)

2nd
May 2005Megumi
has been featured in the Piano & Pianist issue of the Musical Opinion Magazine
(May/June 2005)!